The data set Tornadoes_2017 located at www.pearsonhighered.com/sullivanstats contains a variety of variables that were measured for all
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The data set “Tornadoes_2017” located at www.pearsonhighered.com/sullivanstats contains a variety of variables that were measured for all tornadoes in the United States in 2017.
(a) Determine the mean and median length for all tornadoes. What shape would you expect a histogram of tornado length to have? Why? Confirm your answer by consulting the histogram drawn in Problem 41(a) from Section 2.2.
(b) Determine the mean and median length for tornadoes in Texas (TX). Hint: If you are using StatCrunch, enter “State=TX” in the Where: box of the Summary Stats dialogue window. Determine the mean and median length for tornadoes in Georgia (GA). Which state has longer tornadoes?
(c) Determine the mean and median property loss for all tornadoes. What does this result suggest? Draw a graph of the data and explore the cause of this result.
(d) Does it make sense to determine the mean F scale? Explain.
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